New Year, Old Cookie Favorite

Today is the last day of 2011 and some people fear that 2012 will bring some great disaster.  Let's not dwell on such morbid theories and instead ring in the New Year with an old favorite, Sisters and Brothers.  The folks from Nabisco via the Amazon Vine Program sent me a box of their Mallomars.  I remember these primarily from my five years living in NYC, Manhattan to be more clear, while I went

Nadia's Cannolis

Not far from your Chocolate Priestess' house is a new restaurant called Nadia's Bistro.  It replaces one of the finer restaurants in our college town, a place we went to once maybe since are not really "fine dinning" folks.  I found a coupon on the Nadia website, we decided to try it.  I also got to try out my new recorder as well so I could speak into it and get all my ideas instead of just take

Holidays Recap Winter 2011

It is far too close to Christmas to make an official Saturday Sacrament post for you all, Sisters and Brothers.  Instead I want to recap those companies and chocolatiers who asked us to reveal their products to you these past two months.  While it may be too late to order for tomorrow, none of them only make products for Christmas so you should still check them out.  We have a few posts scheduled

Words on Chocolate for 2011 Holidays

This is our final Winter Holiday specific Sacrament for you all to consider, Sisters and Brothers.  This comes from a fairly new company called Chocolate Says It All which uses FDA approved food colorings without flavor to print messages and images on chocolate.  They sent us this winter holiday sample that we'll look at today as well as a few birthday samples they have.  Their chocolate smells

GIVEAWAY: Gourmet Popcorn for the Holidays

We are thrilled to team up with a gourmet popcorn company for this time of year because it is nice to offer you all options that are healthier, unique, or just plain not the run of the mill candies or cookies you see everything during these holidays.  J. Drizzle sent us two dark chocolate varieties of their popcorn we'll share with you all the experience of trying them out.  I was assisted in

Keeping Track of Chocolate the Smorgie Way

As you may see, Sisters and Brothers, from the right sidebar, I partner with several sites and companies.  Those that send us products or those that, to be blunt, offer me a little money upfront without clicks or sales, are higher on the list.  One of these is The Foodie Blogroll and they've asked me to help spread the word about a new company.  Now, I will never do this unless I think it may be

Recipe: Cookie Swap 2011

I decided to participate in my first food blogger event for the holiday season which may have been insane of me given the busyness of the two months right before Christmas.  I chose to do something for National Cookie Day, which is today, December 12th, and so I joined the "Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2011."



The rules were that we sent in our information and we'd send one dozen homemade

Chocolate Recalls 12.11.2011

Sisters and Brothers, if you have not heard of this food recall related to chocolate, here is the list I received from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

See's Candies, Inc, Issues Allergy Alert on 8oz Almond Clusters, Code SF 088/12
12/08/2011, 6pm EST

See's Candies, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif, is recalling one code of 8 ounce Almond Clusters, because they may contain peanuts.  People who

DOVE for the Holidays 2011

DOVE Chocolate is well-known in the USA and many other places around the world now.  Still a private company, DOVE has grown and grown into international powerhouse that provides chocolate year round as well as for may holidays though not all holiday.  This Christmas DOVE has four bags of chocolate in their PROMISES line called "Snowflakes" -- Milk, Dark, Peppermint Bark, and an Assortment.  They

Chocolate Rose Soap for the Holidays

It wasn't look ago that we looked at some of the soap from Fullmoon but for the holidays they have another chocolate soap they asked us to reveal to you all.  Until the previous soap we featured this Chocolate Rose soap is a seasonal product which means you can only order it for a limited time or you might be able to find the Fullmoon ladies at Winter Market in Bloomington, Indiana.  This bar to

UK Chocolate Traditions for Christmas 2011

The Chocolate Cult is proud to present our first feature review of a product from the UK, from Europe.  We hope this is the first of many more in the forthcoming years.  The company is Charbonnel et Walker, a company created in 1875 by two female chocolatiers (Mrs. Walker and Mme. Charbonnel from Paris) upon the encouragement of King Edward VII (when he was Prince of Wales).  When a recent round

Taraluna for the Holidays

At The Chocolate Cult, we do not discriminate on the basis of the type of chocolate; white, milk, semi-sweet, bittersweet, dark, all are welcomed.  The same goes for the companies that send us products.  Sometimes these are big names, products you hear of on TV ads or can find in most stores.  Often these are small independent chocolate shops, bakeries, and stores.  They may make chocolate, sell

December Chocolate Holidays 2011

I know, I know, isn't December full enough of fun holidays?  True, very true, but we can't just approach the month without awareness of other possible fun food holidays and events we could mark, can we?